The triangles that we can measure are not large enough... to detect the curvature. Fortunately, however, we are, in a way, able to communicate with the fourth dimension. The theory of relativity has given us an insight into the structure of the real universe:... a four-dimensional structure. The study of the way in which the three space-dimensions are interwoven with the time-dimension affords a kind of outside point of view of the three-dimensional space... from this outside point of view we might be able to perceive the curvature of the three-dimensional world.


Kosmos (1932)

Willem de Sitter Quotes

The triangles that we can measure are not large enough... to detect the curvature. Fortunately, however, we are, in a way, able to communicate with...

The triangles that we can measure are not large enough... to detect the curvature. Fortunately, however, we are, in a way, able to communicate with...

The triangles that we can measure are not large enough... to detect the curvature. Fortunately, however, we are, in a way, able to communicate with...

The triangles that we can measure are not large enough... to detect the curvature. Fortunately, however, we are, in a way, able to communicate with...